Quote by George Eliot
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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Some people never head a procession until theyre dead. – Source Unknown

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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. – Irvin S. Cobb

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I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died – Mark Twain

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